On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:30:10 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> "Bob Terwilliger" wrote
>
>>> chicken necks sold *here* (in Australia, which he knows nothing about)
>>> are
>>> sold with the skin on. They aren't. They are sold in 1-2kg bags,
>>> skinless.... and are sold in the pet food section. Most Aussies aren't
>>> that poverty stricken, like twitiliger sounds, to resort to eating dog
>>> food.
>>
>> WTF? Sounds like Australia is really ****ed up, if you can't get skin-on
>> chicken necks. Why on earth would the skin be removed?
>
> Bob, some differences exist across countries and foods is all. I assure
> you, you will never see 'chitlins' in most of them unless as a pet food. I
> wanted to get some turkey necks and found the USA store assumed i didnt want
> the skin so 'kindly' denuded it of that and added the price to them for that
> 'added feature' I didnt want. We in the USA also find the carrot tops are
> removed as presumably by the store we dont want them (whaaaa!!!).

my grocery in md. has carrots by the bunch (a scrawny bunch), presumably
organic, with the tops. the price was shocking.

your pal,
blake